TY  - CONF
TI  - Fabricating Blackness: Aboriginal identity constructs in the production and authorisation of architecture
AU  - Go-Sam, Carroll
T2  - Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference
AB  - The architect and writer, Fantin concluded that, ‘Aboriginal identity is not separate from external forces and influences and architecture is one of those influences. The difficulty in evaluating Fantin’s assertion of the power exerted by architecture is firstly due to a lack of any convincing documented measurement of supposed forces, and secondly there is a relative absence of Indigenous voices in the discourse; so it becomes problematic to conclude the extent architecture exerts this presumed power. Another view presented, is that architecture incorporating Aboriginal themes derived from cultural and totemic references, reinforces identity stereotypes. Leading to the conclusion that several of the completed works consciously and deliberately represent Aboriginality as a primitive and romanticised concept. This latter view poses a contradictory perception that contemporary Indigenous client groups or individuals who participate in projects are passively or naïvely complicit in endorsing regressive, essentialised notions of identity.
C1  - Brisbane, QLD
C3  - Audience: The 28th Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) Annual Conference
DA  - 2011///
PY  - 2011
SP  - 1
EP  - 27
LA  - en
PB  - SAHANZ
UR  - https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:245276
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Urban and cultural heritage
ER  -